Florence Almozini serves as Associate Director of Programming at the Film Society of Lincoln Center and a member of the programming committee of the New York Film Festival. She previously held the position of founding curator and Artistic Director of BAMcinématek in Brooklyn. In 2013, Almozini joined the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, NYC as a program officer for Cinema and Tournées Festival and was awarded the Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2013. Prior to her tenure at BAMcinématek, she was a founding member and film programmer at Ocularis. 

Álvaro Enrigue is a writer born in Mexico and living in New York City. His work, written in Spanish or English, has appeared in The New York Times, El País, The Believer, Letras Libres, and The New York and London Review of Books, among others.  He is the author of five novels, three books of short stories, and one of literary criticism, published by Anagrama in Spanish and Dalkey Archive and Riverhead in English. His novel Sudden Death, first published in Spain as Muerte Súbita in 2013, was awarded the prestigious Herralde Prize in Spain, the Elena Poniatowska International Novel Award in Mexico, and the Barcelona Prize for Fiction. He was a Cullman Center Fellow at the New York Public Library and a member of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores of Mexico.

Leo Goldsmith is a writer and teacher based in Brooklyn. He is the co-editor of the film section of The Brooklyn Rail, a monthly arts and politics newspaper, and he writes on film and media for art-agenda, Artforum, and Cinema Scope. He is currently writing a book with Rachael Rakes on the radical British filmmaker Peter Watkins, and was a contributor to Keywords in Subversive Film/Media Aesthetics (Wiley, 2015), by Robert Stam with Richard Porton. He has organized exhibitions and film series for the Museum of the Moving Image, the Ann Arbor Film Festival, UnionDocs, and the Contemporary Art Centre (Vilnius, Lithuania). He currently teaches at the Center for Experimental Humanities (New York University) and Brooklyn College.

Carolina Bilbao has over 25 years of experience in the entertainment and television industry. Currently, she is the Vice President of Programming and Development for Cinelatino, the leading Spanish-language movie channel in the US and Latin America. In her current role, she oversees acquisitions and development and production of original content for the channel. Prior to this, Bilbao was Cinelatino’s Creative Director for 7 years, guiding the channel through two rebrands and supervising all creative areas, including On-Air promotion teams in Mexico and Miami. Bilbao’s has held previous creative positions at Telemundo, MTV Latin America, Cisneros Television Group, Oxygen Media and Lee Hunt and Associates. She grew up in Spain, Buenos Aires and Guatemala and holds a BA in English from Barnard College.

Vanessa Erazo has always been a big film fan. Growing up bilingual, she eventually discovered the rich variety of Latino films but noticed they were hard to find. The search for these movies led her to work for Latino film festivals in San Francisco, New York, and Mexico City. After receiving an M.A. in Latin American Studies from New York University, she served as the Documentary Programmer at the New York International Latino Film Festival and is now the Editor of the Film section at Remezcla. She is also Co-Director of Cinelandia, an online guide to Latino films playing across the U.S.

Claudia Puig is president of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and a nationally recognized entertainment journalist. She is currently a critic for NPR’s Film Week and a contributor to NPR’s Morning Edition and All Things Considered. She was USA Today’s film critic for 18 years. Prior to that she was a staff writer for 11 years at the Los Angeles Times. Claudia has also been a speechwriter and diversity consultant for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and is currently program director for the Mendocino Film Festival and FilmFest 919 in North Carolina.  She has covered the Sundance, Toronto and Cannes film festivals, and has been a juror at dozens of film festivals around the world from Ashland to Zurich. She is a native Spanish speaker and fluent in Italian, and studied at Cambridge University and at Universidad Ibero-Americana in Mexico City. Claudia has a B.A. in Communications Studies from UCLA and an M.A. in Communications from USC’s Annenberg School.